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Woke up this morning and my knees didn't hurt, for once this week. But the left one itched like crazy. Looked at it and thought 'it's a bit red' but then considered that the red only showed because the rest of my knee is finally a normal colour again. Looked at it again, poked it, thought 'safe than sorry' and cabbed it to the walk-in clinic,which was, amazingly, empty. Secretary was on phone, eventually took my health card, apologizing, 'We're short-staffed today, I'm alone here.' Looks like you're short-patiented as well, I said. 'It's all phone calls,' she said, and indeed it was. Still got to see the doctor in less than fifteen minutes. Who poked here and there, said 'does this hurt', and diagnosed some kind of infection, so now I have antibiotics, and clearly (after two doses) the kind you must eat yoghurt with. Happy holidays. But it may be that some of the pain these last few days is just infection, which would be nice, because I'd been wondering why I had exactly the same pain as before when it's all new knee.
Former coworker came by with the cookies and Guyanese sponge cake I'd ordered. Complimented me on my mobility- 'When my mom had her surgery she got the range of motion back but she couldn't walk like you do.' That hadn't occurred to me, though maybe it's what people mean when they say their knee surgeries didn't work because the ligaments weren't strong enough.
I knew I shouldn't have ordered her cookies because I have no resistance to iced shortbread, but (insert any number of excuses here) and because I'm off alcohol for the next week, I ended up eating more than half of them. Ah well. Appetite will diminish as the antibiotics do their thing and anyway, there's always the new year.
Former coworker came by with the cookies and Guyanese sponge cake I'd ordered. Complimented me on my mobility- 'When my mom had her surgery she got the range of motion back but she couldn't walk like you do.' That hadn't occurred to me, though maybe it's what people mean when they say their knee surgeries didn't work because the ligaments weren't strong enough.
I knew I shouldn't have ordered her cookies because I have no resistance to iced shortbread, but (insert any number of excuses here) and because I'm off alcohol for the next week, I ended up eating more than half of them. Ah well. Appetite will diminish as the antibiotics do their thing and anyway, there's always the new year.
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Glad the problem’s been diagnosed and that you have antibiotics for it. And cookies.
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I have antibiotics. I had cookies. (cough) But at least there's sponge cake left.
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Thank you very much for the Amazon voucher! Greatly appreciated and will be used. Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas back. Amazon is useful but present-wise feels rather like giving people socks.
Then again, at a certain age socks become welcome.
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